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BiWM introduces a significant efficiency breakthrough for video world models by retaining full bidirectional attention through a streamlined two-stage training pipeline. This approach eliminates the costly conversion to causal autoregressive systems while mitigating error accumulation in long-horizon generation tasks across multiple open-source architectures like Wan and HunyuanVideo. The framework offers researchers a reproducible, resource-efficient path toward interactive video control without sacrificing scene dynamics or controllability.
BiWM: Advancing Open-Source Interactive Video World Models with Bidirectional Autoregression
arXiv:2606.10135v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interactive video world models commonly convert bidirectional video generators into causal autoregressive systems through control fine-tuning, autoregressive training, causal initialization, and few-step distillation. This pipeline is costly, while frozen causal histories accumulate errors that degrade long-horizon fidelity and controllability. We present BiWM, the first open-source full-stack training framework for bidirectional autoregressive video world models. BiWM retains full attention within each generated chunk and requires only two stages: camera/action-control fine-tuning and few-step Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD). Both stages converge within a few hundred optimizer steps on 8 H200 GPUs. The framework supports Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B, Wan2.2-TI2V-5B, HunyuanVideo-1.5-TI2V-8B, and LTX-2.3-22B, together with real-world camera control, pluggable long-history compression, and optional low-bit deployment. Supervised and forward-KL anchors mitigate DMD mode collapse and preserve scene dynamics. BiWM provides a compact, reproducible path from pretrained bidirectional video models to interactive, controllable, and efficient world models.
Abstract:Interactive video world models commonly convert bidirectional video generators into causal autoregressive systems through control fine-tuning, autoregressive training, causal initialization, and few-step distillation. This pipeline is costly, while frozen causal histories accumulate errors that degrade long-horizon fidelity and controllability. We present BiWM, the first open-source full-stack training framework for bidirectional autoregressive video world models. BiWM retains full attention within each generated chunk and requires only two stages: camera/action-control fine-tuning and few-step Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD). Both stages converge within a few hundred optimizer steps on 8 H200 GPUs. The framework supports Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B, Wan2.2-TI2V-5B, HunyuanVideo-1.5-TI2V-8B, and LTX-2.3-22B, together with real-world camera control, pluggable long-history compression, and optional low-bit deployment. Supervised and forward-KL anchors mitigate DMD mode collapse and preserve scene dynamics. BiWM provides a compact, reproducible path from pretrained bidirectional video models to interactive, controllable, and efficient world models.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2606.10135 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2606.10135v3 [cs.CV] for this version)
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